Pocket personalizes your recommendations further, lets you follow story creators

Pocket wants to stop the guessing game and have you get recommendations that matter to you. With version 6.1 of the app, you will get recommendations from Pocket as well as stories from curators and friends you want to follow. The stories that appear in the recommendation tab won’t be chronological though, instead they’ll be ordered according to relevance or what stories are most interesting or what you’re most likely to read. In turn, you can also recommend stories and highlight specific sections you think are interesting. These will show up in your new public profile page. It’s important to note that the stories you save will remain private. Only those you explicitly recommend will appear publicly.

Source: Android Police | Download: Google Play Store (Free) + Apple App Store (Free)

Deezer adds CarPlay support for paying subscribers

Deezer will make it easier for you to stream music to the CarPlay platform with its latest update. The service brings CarPlay support to its paying subscribers, which in Deezer’s case are its Premium+ and Elite subscribers. Premium+ account removes advertisements and adds some features, while Elite gets support for high definition audio that’s currently only available to Sonos users.

What Deezer brings to CarPlay include the ability to listen to albums, playlists, and tracks; use Flow feature to find new music; listen to Deezer Mixes; and access music in offline mode.

Source: 9to5Mac | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

eCab App launches with Royal Taxi in Toronto

By Sonya Davidson

This morning in Toronto, cabbies are staging a demonstration to push city officials for more regulations on car-on-demand app-based service Uber. As they clog up major routes into the city core, taxi drivers are speaking on the morning news about how approximately 50% of their fares have been lost since consumers have been switching over to Uber services. 

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Create your own Facebook video profile with Flixel

Want to stand out from those static and boring Facebook profile photos? Well, it’s a good thing Facebook brought its video profiles to Canada. Instead of a static image, you can now have a seven-second looping video show up in your profile. But how do you make one of these? Canadian cinemagraph company Flixel is here to help you out. Just check out the video above for how to make one. It takes just a few steps and a lot of creativity to make this happen. You can check out the more detailed blog post on it in the link below.

Source: Flixel